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STORY: UN / NPT
TRT: 1.48
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 APRIL 2010, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
29 APRIL 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Ambassador Libran Cabactulan takes his seat
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Libran Cabactulan, Permanent Representative of the Philippines, United Nations:
“I cannot promise success of the State parties of this conference. All I can promise is to hit the road early, roll up my sleeves and work very hard, and that the Philippines presidency will be characterized by two words neutrality and transparency.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Libran Cabactulan, Permanent Representative of the Philippines, United Nations:
“I am aware, States Parties are aware of the engaged discussions between Iran and all others, and these are elements that will embellish really, shall we say, the elements that will be taken into account in the discussions by the State parties.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Libran Cabactulan, Permanent Representative of the Philippines, United Nations:
“Success could be different from the various view points from the States parties. For instance the failure of 2005, dismal failure of 2005 because there was no outcome, it was perceived by many as a failure. Some thought it was success; why by mere fact the State Parties have met and discussed, because, mind you, the mandate of is to look back and to look forward, but the mere fact that they State parties had real engagement and discussion they say that’s already success.”
9. Wide shot, Ambassador Libran Cabactulan, leaves journalists behind
The President of the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Conference today (29 April) reassured the State Parties to the NPT that he will “hit the road early, roll up my sleeves and work very hard.”
Ahead of the periodic review of the NPT Conference to be held at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York from 3-28 May, Filipino Ambassador Libran Cabactulan told journalists that the Presidency of the Philippines would be characterized by “two words neutrality and transparency.”
Commenting on the possibility of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attending the Conference and the consequences of that presence, Cabactulan said that those were elements that would “embellish really, shall we say, the elements that will be taken into account in the discussions by the State parties.”
When it came to the success of the conference he said that could be different from the various view points of the different State parties. He then explained that, for instance, the failure of 2005 NPT Conference, because of the lack of an outcome document, was perceived as a failure for some, but others thought it was success; by the mere fact the State Parties had met and discussed.
The NPT is a landmark international treaty with an objective to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970.
A total of 187 parties have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon States. More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance.
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